More than 60 young people representing 45 countries have arrived in Zurich and begun work on the 4th European Athletics-UNESCO Young Leaders Forum, which runs through the 14th of August.

It will be an impressive field of athletes lined up for the 100m final on Wednesday 13 August, and Germany’s Verena Sailer will surely have a big role to play.

Glasgow’s loss is Zurich’s gain as Mo Farah, Great Britain’s Olympic and world champion at 5000m and 10,000m, targets a possible double at the European Athletics Championships having made a late decision not to contest at the Commonwe...

It feels like yesterday that Bulgaria’s Ivet Lalova was storming down the home straight to claim the European 100m title in Helsinki 2012.

Viktor Röthlin will attempt to retain his marathon title from Barcelona, and how sweet would that be in front of the Swiss crowd in Zurich. Mo Farah has dominated the European Athletics Championships in recent year and is expected to do so again o...

Bohdan Bondarenko’s bus back to his hotel after his high jump victory at last month’s IAAF Diamond League meeting in Monaco was delayed. And it was his own fault.

The men's high jump is expected to be a thriller with a possible world record. The field is as close as it can be in the women's long jump with Eloyse Lesueur, Darya Klishina and Ivana Spavonic battling for gold. And of course the sky is the limit for ...

The European Athletics website will be an excellent source of information related to the European Athletics Championships in Zurich from 12-17 August.

It is almost five years since Blanka Vlasic jumped her personal best of 2.08m in one of the summers of her life: she had just become a world champion and now a few weeks later she was attempting to break the world record as she reached a rema...

Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad and Sifan Hassan will be chasing two middle distance titles each. Henirk Ingebrigtsen and Lynsey Sharp will try to defend their titles, while Abeba Aregawi will attempt to continue her magnificent run in championship settings.